Tag: Corrupt

KARACHI - Officers of the Revenue Department who achieve the government-fixed targets would be rewarded and given incentives and those found negligent and involved in corruption would be punished, Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah said on Monday. The chief minister was presiding over a high-level meeting at Chief Minister's House to review the progress on revenue collection and various taxes in the province. Directing the revenue and tax collection departments to pay full attention

ISLAMABAD - The Defence Ministry assured the Special Committee of the Public Account Committee (PAC) on Monday that corrupt military officials involved in the National Logistic Cell (NLC) scandal would be punished. The Special Committee III, which met with Riaz Hussain Peerzada in the chair, was told that all those involved in the NLC scam would be punished per law. An Defence Ministry official told the committee that the army chief was serious in taking action against corrupt

LAHORE - There is a likelihood of malpractices and corruption in the annual matriculation examinations 2011 after the officials of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Lahore and Lahore executive district officer (EDO)'s office clerks appointed six corrupt superintendents to examination centres, Pakistan Today learnt on Tuesday. BISE officials said that these six teachers had been found guilty of corruption in the past, but still board officials appointed them. The

ISLAMABAD - Intensifying anti-corruption drive against corrupt officers in its Customs Wing, the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has asked the financial organisations and urban and real estate development authorities to provide details of the assets of the officers involved in ISAF containers' scam, an official source Tuesday told Pakistan Today.
"The probe is being conducted into the assts of over 600 officers on the basis of investigations of the Federal Tax Ombudsman (FTO)

ISLAMABAD - The special committee of the Public Accounts Committee on Monday directed senior officials of the Federal Board of Revenue to lodge criminal FIRs against corrupt officials and present a report before the committee within 15 days.
The committee, which met with Riaz Hussain Pirzada in the chair, reviewed audit objections of the ministries of Defence, Defence Production, Science and Technology and the FBR.
While settling an audit objection of the Ministry of

LAHORE - People are fed up of corrupt politicians who have only looted the national exchequer and pushed the country towards lawlessness and chaos, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan said on Thursday while addressing a public gathering at Malikwal.
He said that politicians have succeeded in only increasing poverty, lawlessness, unemployment and corruption and now people are desperate for a change. Imran said that corrupt people will get "clean bold" on his one

ISLAMABAD - PML-Q Secretary General Mushahid Hussain Syed on Monday termed the PPP government corrupt and inept which had miserably failed in providing relief to the poor masses of the country.
Addressing a labour convention held here at the Pakistan Muslim League House, Mushahid Hussain said that Pakistan was a fit case for Egypt-like revolution as the country was facing massive financial crisis. Terming the PML as a symbol of federation, Mushahid said his party leadership could

ISLAMABAD - The chairman of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Justice (r) Syed Deedar Hussain Shah has quietly directed his staff to close down corruption inquiries against almost 60 leaders of the ruling coalition - mostly from the Pakistan People's Party.
A source told Pakistan Today on Saturday that the decision was taken at the Executive Board meeting of the NAB on January 29. "During the meeting, the NAB chairman said that since these inquiries were politically

KARACHI - Interpol has been requested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for the issuance of arrest warrants against "all corrupt elements" who have escaped the country in the past for trial before a Pakistani court of law, claimed the Agency's Sindh Director Muazzam Jah at a press conference on Thursday.
Jah demanded that the Pakistan Steel Mills provide the FIA with names of all those involved in the corruption case of Rs 22 billion. He said that although the FIA

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday suspended Education Executive District Officer (EDO) Lahore Dr Muhammad Arshad for negligence in his duty and alleged corruptions in the Education Department, Pakistan Today learnt on Sunday.
CM took this action when he was visiting a government school in Chacho Wali Baidian Road and found that school was working without proper facilities, infrastructure, non availability of proper furniture and EDO was not providing

LAHORE - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Punjab President Ahsan Rasheed claimed on Monday that the corrupt politicians were in pursuit to curtail judiciary to restrict every voice raised for the betterment of the people of the country.
Ahsan said that the country was passing through severe crisis as almost every institution was depreciating owing to the corruption of the current government that was only striving to ensure its rule while the Supreme Court was over burdened with

ISLAMABAD - Former federal minister Azam Swati on Thursday called Yousaf Raza Gilani the most corrupt prime minister in the country's 63-year history."Both Zardari and Gilani are corrupt and dishonest people and the latter has brought a bad name to his parents by indulging in massive corruption,
" Swati said while talking to reporters outside the Supreme Court where he had gone to attend the hearing into the Haj scam. He said the apex court well knew that the FIA would not unveil

KARACHI - The Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) has received several complaints against state-run departments and acquired evidence against them as well, Moazzam Jah Ansari, FIA Sindh director said on Tuesday.
The departments involved in corruption include Pakistan Railways, National Database and Registration Authority, National Highway Authority, Pakistan State Oil, Passport Cell, Customs, Karachi Port Trust, Pakistan Agriculture Storage and Supply Corporation and National

LAHORE: There is no room for corrupt and dishonest judges and stern disciplinary action would be taken if any such allegation is proved, Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry said on Friday. He made remarks while meeting Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA) and Punjab Bar Council (PbBC) delegations at his chamber who called on him to congratulate him on becoming the LHC CJ. He asked the LHCBA, PbBC and other lawyers to point out corruption in the

LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry in his maiden speech on Thursday said that there must be a death sentence for all corrupt people whether government officials or others in order to make society corruption-free.
He made these remarks while addressing a ceremony in connection with the International Anti-Corruption Day at the Alhamra Arts Council organised by the National Accountability Bureau. "The roots of corruption are very deep in our

ISLAMABAD: The country's political parties, police, and parliament have emerged as the top three most corrupt institutions, with the judiciary showing improvement in curbing the menace of corruption, said the 2010 Global Corruption Barometer, a worldwide public opinion survey on corruption released on the International Anti-Corruption Day (Thursday) by Transparency International
The report said that 77 percent of the people believed that corruption in the country had increased

LAHORE: According to the recently published Wikileaks reports, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi called PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif more dangerous than President Asif Ali Zardari.
According to a document of July 23, 2009 included in the controversial cable releases by WikiLeaks, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Prince Muhammad bin Zaid said Zardari was corrupt but not dangerous, while Nawaz was not a trustworthy person.
The same document states that a new personality could come into the